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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of several Old World plants of the genus Atriplex, especially A. hortensis, the garden-orach. See Atriplex and mountain-spinach.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.
  • noun a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes

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